Rank "Evita" Recordings

EVITA performances from favorite to least favorite:

1. Julie Covington
2. Patti LuPone
3. Elaine Paige
4. Madonna

CHE performances from favorite to least favorite:

1. Mandy Patinkin
2. Antonio Banderas
3. Colm Wilkinson
4. David Essex

JUAN PERON performances from favorite to least favorite:

- In this case I love them all (Paul Jones, Joss Ackland, Bob Gunton and Jonathan Pryce) equally.

MAGALDI performances from favorite to least favorite:

1. Mark Syers
2. Jimmy Nail
3. Mark Ryan
4. Tony Christie

ORCHESTRATIONS from favorite to least favorite:

1. The Film Soundtrack
2. The 1976 Concept Album
3. The 1979 Broadway Recording
4. The 1978 London Recording

Just skipping the revival altogether?

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I really need to take a Xanax before listening to the manic OBC with Patti. She's great and all but it's just so fast and so frantic that it makes me nervous.

It's spelled Elaynuh Rodgerz's

Elena Roger and Patti LuPone are just floating around the top of this list alternating spots as number 1.

Then Julie Covington and Elaine Paige are hanging out at the bottom, alternating spots as least favourite.

And then there's Madonna who is sometimes my favourite thing ever and sometimes I hate her in the role. Good acting, bad singing.

Juan Peron:
1. Michael Cerveris
2. Bob Gunton
3. Jonathan Pryce

Che:
1. Mandy Patinkin
2. Mandy Patinkin
3. Mandy Patinkin
4. Colm Wilkinson

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I always though Julie Covington was pretty rank.

Patti LuPone
Julie Covington
Florence Lacey
Elaine Page

I just don't play the OLC revival, the OBC revival or the soundtrack much at all.

"1. Patti LuPone and the OBC
2. everything else"

How sad for you. :-/

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Patti LuPone is the only Evita for me. I actually saw the film before getting the OBC Recording , and thought the it was a mediocre show that received way to much hype. However, after hearing Patti, I started listing to the score more closely, and found some good things in the score (the only ALW show I feel is actually good enough to be ON Broadway).
I was looking forward to the revival recording, but was sorely disappointed, the new orchestrations were a guise for smaller orchestra and I HATED Elena's accent. She sings quite well, but she's always Elena. And the end of RAINBOW HIGH? What was that note? Evita needs to be able to belt nth extremely high and low notes.
Patti however, became Eva in the role. The only problem with her recording is that RAINBOW HIGH is much to slow. When she did it live - wow, what an electric performance!

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The Spanish cast album with Paloma SanVasilio is pretty good.

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^This. The 2006/2012 (they're almost identical) version takes the cake. The OBC is okay. Buenos Aires on the concept album and the OLC is laughable.

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@ emlodik: I LOVE YOUR PALOMA SAN BASILIO AVATAR AS EVITA AVATAR!!

:: TWO THUMBS UP ::


Indeed! She is my favorite, with Elena Roger being close second. I also love Isabel Weiken from the original Austrian cast and Rocio Banquells from the original Mexican recording really grew on me recently. At the very least, they're all unique and edgy sounding, unlike those two generic pop princess "Wicked" expatriates they got sharing the role in the current US tour.

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I'm really only familiar with the OBC and the Roger/Martin recent revival recordings but Patti/Patinkin take it home for me. There's so much character to them, to their voices and how they handle the material - they sound like two vipers circling each other, spitting. I find it really thrilling. With Roger/Martin I never get past the feeling that I'm listening to two people whose overriding concern is to sound very, very good, Martin in particular.

Also I have no idea what CarlosAlberto is talking about, Patti is perfectly intelligible. The only line I I've ever had trouble with was "I wanna be a part of BA, Buenos Aires, Big Apple", though I think it's a weird line anyways.

Updated On: 2/4/14 at 10:35 PM